

Realistically 13-inch MacBook users will benefit the most as the addition of the Hub boosts the usually standard poultry usable ports from one to three.

The OWC Thunderbolt dock is a compact Thunderbolt 4 port solution for your laptop, be it Mac or PC. The OWC Thunderbolt hub is a great solution for anyone using a recent 13-inch MacBook of any type or 60W power-hungry PC laptop and adds much-needed ports while still supplying power.įor those with 16-inch MacBook’s or 100W PC laptops, the benefits are far less obvious, and for the money, it would be better spent on the OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock. Also, being self-powered, the Hub can deliver up to 60W to power and charge your laptop. The Hub provides a no-fuss daisy-chaining solution with plenty of bus power for all devices. However, the power supply and cables are almost double the size and equal in weight, but this Hub isn’t designed to be portable. Unfortunately, Mac ports are still languishing at Thunderbolt 3, while Thunderbolt 4 is fast becoming the norm in the PC world check out the Intel NUC Extreme. Plugin and you’re away, three additional Thunderbolt 4 ports in an instant and a USB-A for good measure, and of course, the Thunderbolt 4 ports are fully backwards compatible with Thunderbolt 3. There’s no doubt that the OWC Thunderbolt Hub provides a convenient solution for anyone looking to add more Thunderbolt 3/4 ports to their Mac or PC.
